Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/FPU: Fix FPU handling on legacy FPU machines | From | Bryan O'Donoghue <> | Date | Sat, 12 Mar 2016 12:04:49 +0000 |
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On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 23:03 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:32:43AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Obvious Ack to the patch, along with a "how did this ever work > > before?" comment.. > > I had a sarcastic sentence in the commit message which I deleted > later: > > "Apparently no one had tried the kernel on a 486er after the FPU > rewrite. Backwards compatibility is overrated." > > :-) > > I'm still wondering, though, why didn't the Quark people scream > earlier... And who knows, it was probably b0rked even before the > FPU rewrite. >
Busy with the dayjob :) so I haven't updated on Galileo since
4b696dcb1a55e40648ad0eec4af991c72f945a85 (Feb 28 or so)
but... we'll do a better job keep track of -next to catch this stuff earlier
--- bod
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